The pathetic thing about the great wellintentioned mass of college and highschool students is that they have been so badly educate...d they have no knowledge or understanding of the complications of the world we live in and they have been so conditioned and prejudiced by generations of ill-taught teachers that they refuse to see a fact when they are confronted with one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows o...ne big thing." Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean no more than that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog's one defence. But, taken figuratively, the words can be made to yield a sense in which they mark one of the deepest differences which divide writers and thinkers, and, it may be, human beings in general. For there exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, universal, organizing principle in terms of which alone all that they are and say has significance--and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory.... Their thought is scattered or diffused, moving on many levels, seizing upon the essence of a vast variety of experiences and objects for what they are in themselves, without, consciously or unconsciously, seeking to fit them into, or exclude them from any one unchanging, all-embracing, sometimes self-contradictory and incomplete, at times fanatical, unitary inner vision. The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes; and without insisting on a rigid classifica tion, we may, without too much fear of contradiction, say that, in this sense, Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and chil...d-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing--the truly democratic thing about it--is ...that you don't even have to be a player to lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing a...bout you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have sp...ent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things--war and hunger and date ra...pe--liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's fall...ing. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »